Diários de um cartógrafo do fim do mundo

Abstract

This thesis aims to problematize the use of Social Cartography in the context of actions to repair the catastrophe caused by the mining companies Samarco, Vale and BHP Billiton in Mariana, based on a multispecific approach, in which I expand the concept of social and family to kinship between species, alongside and beyond the human. I exercise this approach through four essayistic texts that intertwine narratives of my experiences as a social cartographer, interviews, photographs, maps, documentary research and technical data produced on the sub-basin of the Gualaxo do Norte river, the first watercourse severely affected by the tailings mud from the Fundão dam, with authors who discuss landscapes ruined by global capitalism and ways of inhabiting the world from an ethnographic perspective of living. This articulation compels me to glimpse everything from the sharing of ways and technologies of survival to the catastrophe between different species to the composition of an expanded geography of mining, beyond an anthropocentric extractivism, making this work an experience of multispecies cartography, in a propositional and speculative, which reflects a notion of the ends of worlds that do not end for everyone, but reveal processes of mutual listening and help.